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[APP] Compiled lynx binary for android - Shell or ADB

I've searched the web, and found no lynx binaries for android, so I set out to compile it myself.
For the uninitiated, lynx is a text-based browser. No images, no javascript, no flash. Just pure content.
You can use it by connecting to your phone through adb, telnet, ssh or a shell on the phone itself.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
This is lynx version 2.8.8 with ncurses 5.9
I pretty much just followed the instructions at http://www.embedu.org/Column/Column294.htm, and added a flag to make the linking static. No code changes were required.
Installation instructions
Root is not required.
You need to unzip the file on the /sdcard folder. The following files must exist:
/sdcard/lynx/lynx.cfg
/sdcard/lynx/lynx.lss
/sdcard/lynx/cache/
Then you need to move the binary to /data/local (or /system/xbin if you want something more permanent. Then you'd need root)
and run this command:
chmod 755 /data/local/lynx
Then run :
/data/local/lynx
and enjoy!
Additional information
If you want to put these files somewhere else, you must redefine the following variables, respectively:
LYNX_CFG (eg: export LYNX_CFG=/system/etc/lynx.cfg)
LYNX_LSS (eg: export LYNX_LSS =/system/etc/lynx.lss)
TMPDIR (eg: export TMPDIR =/cache)
If you receive an error message about the terminal, you need to configure a terminal.
Here are some instruction (for nano, but it works the same)
Sources are at the following addresses:
http://lynx.browser.org/
http://www.gnu.org/s/ncurses/

reserved
soon get the flash-able package

Thanks! I installed this on my ZTE Blade with 2.3.4 Gingerbread, but after setting everything in Terminal Emulator, I get these errors:
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
Looking up lynx.isc.org
Unable to locate remote host lynx.isc.org.
lynx: Can't access startfile http://lynx.isc.org
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As if there were no internet connection...

Awesome
Will be testing on my thunderbolt later today. I'll let you guys know how it goes.
However, would you mind reposting this on RW, or would you mind if I were to repost it and link back?
[EDIT] In having just configured everything, I also get the error from the post above. It seems as though lynx thinks it doesn't have internet access. This is the case on 3g and wireless networks. Let me know if you want me to test anything for you.[/EDIT]
All the best,
-HG

Looks great.
May I add that to my script ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191984

Well, I was able to install it from a chrooted ubuntu 10.10 distro on my device. It's already compiled for ARM on ports.ubuntu.com, so maybe it's not so exclusive.
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Sure
sebsch1991 said:
Looks great.
May I add that to my script ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191984
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Sure, go ahead. It's open-sourced after all, I just built it.

dangpzanco said:
Well, I was able to install it from a chrooted ubuntu 10.10 distro on my device. It's already compiled for ARM on ports.ubuntu.com, so maybe it's not so exclusive.
Sent from my Milestone 2 XDA App
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Nice. Can you point me to the correct file? I got as far as http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/universe/l/lynx-cur/, but I don't know which one contains the binary.

While this is quite cool, why lynx? Why not elinks? It has much better layout capabilities. It has tabs! It even has javascript.

Code:
[email protected]:/# apt-get install lynx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lynx
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/215kB of archives.
After this operation, 254kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package lynx.
(Reading database ... 66275 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lynx (from .../lynx_2.8.8dev.2-1_all.deb) ...
I installed it that way.
Search for opkg (i think this is the name) if you are curious. It's a way of using deb packaging on Android (G1), but not in development anymore...
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I would be nice if someone could compile the HTTPS version of this so I could browse my banks mobile site

norti said:
Thanks! I installed this on my ZTE Blade with 2.3.4 Gingerbread, but after setting everything in Terminal Emulator, I get these errors:
As if there were no internet connection...
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any solution ? i got the same problem...

hawkeyexp said:
any solution ? i got the same problem...
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Can you ping any web address from the shell? What about wget, can you try that?

both pissble without problems

I am getting the following error
Looking up <url>.
Unable to locate remote host <url>
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

system/bin/screenshot works bad, really

i tried system/bin/screenshot, it doesn't work, it make screenshots, but colors are totally messed up
what i tried is:
Code:
adb shell
screenshot /media/001.png
what you obtain is a blueish screenshot, with messed up colors
i would like to use it with cron4phone to make timed screenshots to use with the screensaver, so i can have the page i'm reading as screensaver
any idea how to fix it?

Tried the screenshot app?

apeine said:
Tried the screenshot app?
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nope, how to launch them from cron4phone?

i use the screenshot
and it work great

chriscsh said:
i use the screenshot
and it work great
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can you start it from the shell?

no
but you can set the delay time for take a screenshot

I tried
Code:
screenshot /sdcard/001.png
in terminal emulator and it worked for me.

larryflynt said:
I tried
Code:
screenshot /sdcard/001.png
in terminal emulator and it worked for me.
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which version? (1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1)
aren't you getting blueish colors?
May be the emulator windows has easy to render colors, try to take screenshot of the launcher with icons please

Did you know a free screenshot app where you can specific the path to save the file.
It woud be nice to save the screenshot to /media/screensavers/

Try this instead
Code:
/system/bin/screencap -p /outputlocation/out.png

The Nook frame buffer is RGB565.
The emulator framebuffer isn't.
You can always just dump the framebuffer raw and convert it to a PNG externally.
Code:
cat /dev/graphics/fb0 > /sdcard/raw

i tried running it in my app and the image return is blank.
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/system/bin/screencap -p "+TouchOverlay.getFolder()+ cName + ".jpg");
I ve also tried both bmp and png format with no avail.
Is there anything permission i need set to get the image?

To access the frame buffer you must be a member of the graphics group.
An application runs as a user like "APP_14".
You could add your user to the group manually.
You could hack an existing permission to automatically include your user in the group.
You could add a new permission to automatically include your user in the group.
You could spawn a process to run su.

Renate NST said:
To access the frame buffer you must be a member of the graphics group.
An application runs as a user like "APP_14".
You could add your user to the group manually.
You could hack an existing permission to automatically include your user in the group.
You could add a new permission to automatically include your user in the group.
You could spawn a process to run su.
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Thanks for the reply!
I would prefer not to use super user but unable to find resources guiding me on adding the permission. Whats the permission called? Couldnt find one that fits your description.

Oops, it's actually easier than I was thinking.
I was thinking of something else.
The permission is just android.permission.SCREENSHOT
What I said before is true for hacking a group like audio.

You can take decent screenshots using Android SDK.
on NST :
- "Nook Color Tools" -> "All Settings" -> "Development" -> USB debugging [X] -> Auto Mount [ ]
- connect nook to your PC with USB cable
- run "ddms" from your Android SDK folder
-select "Device > Screen Capture" (or Ctrl-S) to take a screenshot
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Just saying.
It is kind of a off-topic but I think that a screenshot thread is a good place to post that info.

Mmm.. delicious,
I wish the actual e-ink screen looked this good in reality. Maybe someday.

How to take a proper screenshot from framebuffer with ADB and FFMPEG
Here's what I use:
Code:
% adb pull /dev/graphics/fb0
% ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb565 -s 600x800 -i fb0 -frames 1 -vcodec png screenshot.png
The full script that also timestamps the generated files:
Code:
@echo off
set ffmpeg=ffmpeg.exe
set framebuffer_dev=/dev/graphics/fb0
set screenshot_file_name=nook_%date%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%
echo BEGIN %~n0
echo Pulling raw framebuffer data from device...
adb pull %framebuffer_dev% %screenshot_file_name%.raw
echo Converting framebuffer to PNG format: %screenshot_file_name%.png
%ffmpeg% -loglevel quiet -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb565 -s 600x800 -i %screenshot_file_name%.raw -frames 1 -vcodec png -y %screenshot_file_name%.png
echo Removing raw framebuffer data...
del /f /q %screenshot_file_name%.raw
echo END %~n0
Example output (the automatically-generated filename is nook_2015-03-11_105313.png):
The script is attached, along with another one that will remove all the previously-generated screenshots. To work it needs ADB and FFMPEG (download link).

I use the free app Screenshot Ultimate for all my screenshotting needs. I do take quite a few - see my profile's "NTG Homescreens" albums for all of the homescreens I've used in the past.
Here's an example of what Screenshot Ultimate can do:
All you need is the empty frame and the aforementioned app to create beauties like this!

If you want something a bit less ultimate you can download nookbits.exe from the signature.
Code:
adb pull /dev/graphics/fb0 raw
nookbits /f /b2 raw snap.png
(/b is optional border)

[PROGRAM] Command Line for Windows Mobile 6.1

I was looking for an easy installation of a command prompt for my windows mobile device (I keep it around as a hobby device) and I could not find a clear, concise, not to mention easy setup. So, I decided to create one of my own. I have assembled a modified version of the command prompt power toy, and a registry toggle script into one convenient installer. Instructions are included below:
Prerequisites:
Windows Mobile 2003, 5.0, 6.0, 6.1
MortScript - For the Toggle
Instructions:
After installation, delete the "setup.dll" files, you don't need them
Next, when activating the progeram, you must first select the "CMD Toggle" shortcut in the "Command Line" Folder
in your "Start Menu/Programs" subfolder - this will toggle the registry, and allow you to display the command line
Then, you may select the "Command Line" shortcut, and enjoy!
After exiting the Command Line, select the "CMD Toggle" shortcut once more to toggle the command line off, this will
prevent the command line from displaying at awkward moments, when commands are being issued to your device.
This setup has been tested/working on a Delll AXIM X51v, running a customized version of LennySH's WM6.1 ROM
with enhancements, and a SIP from VGAKeyboard.
2013 EDIT: I recently got back to this idea, and I have found a couple programs commonly used in the command line: Ping, and IPConfig. Just place the contents of the attached ZIP in the "WINDOWS" directory, and you will be able to invoke these through the command line.
Happy Hacking
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Unit ZER0 said:
I was looking for an easy installation of a command prompt for my windows mobile device (I keep it around as a hobby device) and I could not find a clear, concise, not to mention easy setup. So, I decided to create one of my own. I have assembled a modified version of the command prompt power toy, and a registry toggle script into one convenient installer. Instructions are included below:
Prerequisites:
Windows Mobile 2003, 5.0, 6.0, 6.1
MortScript - For the Toggle
Instructions:
After installation, delete the "setup.dll" files, you don't need them
Next, when activating the progeram, you must first select the "CMD Toggle" shortcut in the "Command Line" Folder
in your "Start Menu/Programs" subfolder - this will toggle the registry, and allow you to display the command line
Then, you may select the "Command Line" shortcut, and enjoy!
After exiting the Command Line, select the "CMD Toggle" shortcut once more to toggle the command line off, this will
prevent the command line from displaying at awkward moments, when commands are being issued to your device.
This setup has been tested/working on a Delll AXIM X51v, running a customized version of LennySH's WM6.1 ROM
with enhancements, and a SIP from VGAKeyboard.
Happy Hacking
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Dude, this is awesome. My device is Omnia i900 with WM 6.5.3, I was wondering will this work on this device? Which cab should I download if its workin? Command Line or Command line for Windows Mobile?
And where to install? Device or My Storage?
Thanks in advance
P.S. Ok I got it, its the same file (LOL, stupid me). Feedback is following these days!

OH MY GOD, no you didn't!

BorisMKD said:
Dude, this is awesome. My device is Omnia i900 with WM 6.5.3, I was wondering will this work on this device? Which cab should I download if its workin? Command Line or Command line for Windows Mobile?
And where to install? Device or My Storage?
Thanks in advance
P.S. Ok I got it, its the same file (LOL, stupid me). Feedback is following these days!
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Install directly into your device's memory.

opening mscr file error
"... Next, when activating the progeram, you must first select the "CMD Toggle" shortcut in the "Command Line" Folder
in your "Start Menu/Programs" subfolder - this will toggle the registry, and allow you to display the command line..."
After running CMD Toggle I get a "No application associated" error. How can I run a .mscr file ?

First of all, thanks for your application. It works fine on a very old i-mate 9502 of mine. Nevertheless, please, if possible, turn the fonts much bigger, or, at least with their sizes selectable, because on a 2.8" screen it is virtually impossible for an old man to read anything.

MortScript Needed!
haga15 said:
"... Next, when activating the progeram, you must first select the "CMD Toggle" shortcut in the "Command Line" Folder
in your "Start Menu/Programs" subfolder - this will toggle the registry, and allow you to display the command line..."
After running CMD Toggle I get a "No application associated" error. How can I run a .mscr file ?
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You must have MortScript installed first...
You can get it Here: http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&action=list&entry=18

casouzaj said:
First of all, thanks for your application. It works fine on a very old i-mate 9502 of mine. Nevertheless, please, if possible, turn the fonts much bigger, or, at least with their sizes selectable, because on a 2.8" screen it is virtually impossible for an old man to read anything.
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I think you'll need to adjust your device's resolution manually... I have made no changes to the size of the displayed text.

Unit ZER0 said:
I think you'll need to adjust your device's resolution manually... I have made no changes to the size of the displayed text.
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The fonts shown in your app top bar are fine. The tiny fonts are shown on the open terminal window; command iputs echoes and outputs from the system are really small. No other cab files I installed so far produce such small texts. Thanks, anyway.

cmd.exe uses system font. If not content with its size / shape, then you have to change system's font settings.

Everything on the Windows Phone 8 Emulator

The Windows Phone 8 Emulator is installed as a part of the Windows Phone 8 SDK. You can follow some steps below to begin hacking the emulator.
Things to do:
everything....
InteropUnlock
BCD Editing
Well, first thing is first. Getting the WP8 SDK to install.
PREREQUISITES:
A SLAT capable CPU and BIOS. Some OEMs have only enabled the virtualization feature, but missed the SLAT feature.
Your computer needs to support hardware DEP (No execute bit for AMD).
An OS that supports Hyper-V: Server 2008, 2008R2, 2010, 2012, 2012R2, or Windows 8 Pro.
Note: AFAIK, the only officially supported OS for this is Win8Pro-x64
Access to a user account that has Administrator rights.
Steps for "Getting Ready!"
Set the date to 10/5/13 - one day before expiration (thanks to mister2d.)
Install the SDK normally. (Note: the complete SDK should be installable on any 64bit OS that has the OS version at 6.1 or newer, just follow the tutorial in my signature.)
Install the Visual Studio Update 4.
Install the Windows Phone Emulator - Update 3
Now, most of you can launch the emulator by opening the Windows Phone Deployment Tool (or Windows Phone Power Tools) and deploy to the resolution of choice and to either RTM or GDR3.
I seemed to hit a bug where XDE (the emulator shell) can't create a Virtual Machine properly. It seems to be surrounding the disk being attached improperly.
So.... You can skip the entire part above if you have the Flash.vhd and the desired resolution vhd.
Using the WP8 emulator only using Hyper-V Manager
Open Hyper-V Manager
Click on New, then Virtual Machine
Name the VM what ever you like.
Set RAM at 512 or 1024. 2048 me be a little finicky.
Leave Networking on Not Connected unless you have fully configured Hyper-V.
Select "Attach a virtual hard disk later"
Click Finish.
Right click on the VM you have just created and go to settings.
Click on DVD Drive and press remove.
Click on Hard Drive and paste the location of the desired resolution vhd.
e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0GDR3\Emulation\Images\Flash.480x800.vhd
Double click on the VM to bring up the control interface and press the blue-green "start" button.
Controls for the VM:
Back - Escape/F1
Start - F2
Search - F3
Vol UP - F9
Vol Down - F10
Camera full-press? - F7
Mouse left & right click - tap
NOTE: THE CURSOR DISAPPEARS WHEN MOVED INTO THE VM SCREEN.
Things disable out of box.
Microsoft accounts
dialer (I can't seem to get any of the dialer codes to work yet.)
camera (kinda...just displays a colored box running around the edges.)
Steps to InteropUnlock:
Attach the vhd
type diskmgmt.msc at the start screen. click attach vhd. paste the location of the vhd and press ok.
e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0GDR3\Emulation\Images\Flash.480x800.vhd
right click on blue disk shown and click on detach vhd once done with working on it.
type regedit.exe at the start screen.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Click File, Load Hive.
Go to the main partition (the one that has all the links to the other drives...)
and go down to Windows\System32\config (it will ask for permission to enter...)
Hmm....Seems to be interopunlocked already...
More soon!

reserved

Just saying this in case you didn't know this: You can mount the VHD file as a hardware and explore/edit emulator system files.

That's exactly what's in the op, but I'm not sure what persists and there's a few others too, but I ran out of time to mess with it. Just highlight the text and you'll see that the directions are there.
Essentially this should be able to operate like a real device, but it needs a few tweaks. Also its funny to see in settings for it to say i386 under the SoC.
Sent from my Lumia 928 (RM-860) using Tapatalk

Convert VHD into vmdisk, then you can run the emulator in VMWare directly with CPU without SALT or VT and can also without win8

Saw this over on the winbeta site. Didn't really check it out but may be useful in backing up any work done on the emulators. As I said I didn't take much time checking it out but may be worth a look. http://go.altaro.com/?LP=WinBeta-30...tm_medium=banner-300x250&utm_campaign=winbeta

What would be really nice is to make it so you can connect your MS account from the emulator.

jordanmills said:
What would be really nice is to make it so you can connect your MS account from the emulator.
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Yeah it might just need an easy tweak, but then again I simply don't know.

Skin WP-Emulator
Skin WP-Emulator from MS Dev Center.
Maybe someone needs
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Nokser

[TOOL][ADB][Windows]RAM-Hog Sniffer For Rooted Android Emulators

Given the case you feel your favorite Android emulator runs slowly, especially at a certain game, then you should remind that Android emulator's (AVD) performance mainly depends on correct setting of its
A: Android per app Heap Size granted
B: VM total RAM (read: Random Access Memory) allocated off host machine
Most emulators don't automatically take care of this, they are preset to standard values: it's on the user to correctly configure it.
User has to check and monitor for the RAM usage of an individual app/game on Android, has to check which app/game is eating the maximum RAM and affecting the performance.
Yes, for me one of the fundamental questions users ask (or at least, they should) is: how much memory is my program using? It may be a simple question, but with a virtual memory operating system like Android the answer is quite complex.
By default Android OS - a derivate of Linux OS - since ages comes with procrank tool, what in detail shows you some RAM metrics for an application as those are VSS, RRS, PPS and USS. So also Android OS provided by the various emulators should do it, too.
Installed Terminal Emulator app on some wellknown emulators and ran procrank. Experienced that on Android emulators like
BlueStacks 4 ( Android Nougat )
PROCRANK doesn't work at all, you get message: "error creating kernel interface -- does this kernel have pagemap?"
MEmu 6 ( Android Nougat )
PROCRANK doesn't exist - means isn't implemented at all
NOX 6 ( Android Nougat )
PROCRANK isn't working, you get message: library "libpagemap.so" not found
Genymotion 3 ( Android Nougat )
PROCRANK doesn't work at all, you get message: "error creating kernel interface -- does this kernel have pagemap?"
Maybe someone knows reasons for that?
Hence, to get out the app/game specific RAM metrics ( read: VmPeak, VmVSS, VmHWM, VmRSS and VmPSS ) on an Android emulator, I wrote a Windows command script ( ~50KB ) that running against a rooted emulator gives them to me: I named it RAM-hog Sniffer. Notes: It's provided on an "AS IS" basis, it's free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under license GPLv3.
Successfully tried it on properly rooted and ADB-enabled BlueStacks v4.50.5.1003 ( Android Nougat ):
Excerpt of logfile created:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Useful or not is for you to tell, give it a try and leave a comment with suggestion if indicated.
Usage:
• Download the attached ZIP and unpack it on Windows PC into any location of your choice
• Connect a rooted and ADB enabled emulator to PC
• Run Windows batch-file named RAM-hog-Sniffer
FYI: You will need to install the Android ADB drivers if your emulator is not detected.
PS: Please, do NOT share this elsewhere - I want to be able to update if necessary.

Script revamped. New version is in OP.

gr8. ty

To keep you updated: BlueStacks announced to fix the PROCRANK problem

According to the description I think something good,
but, can the script, not to change to the installed system,
for editing on a computer.>?

Ciuma777 said:
According to the description I think something good,
but, can the script, not to change to the installed system,
for editing on a computer.>?
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You use any ANSI-editor of your choice, preferredly of course Notepad++, to edit the script on your Windows computer according to your needs.